This blog is a collection on my ramblings on Economics. I plan to write on current economic issues, recent research (sometimes mine, but more often others’), and issues of interest to economists. As I am writing from Turkey, I will try to focus more on the Turkish economy. While I will write in English, I will refer to articles in Turkish and might occasionally invite a guest blogger to write in Turkish. So, apologies for the semi-bilingual nature of the blog if you do not speak Turkish...

Anyway, I have devoted today to reading catch-up, writing my latest Forbes column and... housecleaning with the blog, which just means that I will do my archiving for the past two weeks:I am aware that most of my loyal readers are subscribed to the blog email list, so to make sure that, they are not to swamped with the articles, in case they did not have a chance to read them before at the relevant sites, I will do the updating piecewise, throughout the day...